All the Brave Promises: Memories of Aircraft Woman 2nd Class 2146391 (Scribner Signature Edition)

Settle, Mary Lee

ISBN 10: 0684187566 / ISBN 13: 9780684187563

Published by Scribner Book Company, 1988

Item in very good condition! Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc. Seller Inventory # 00082425355

Synopsis:

After being rejected by the American armed forces for poor eyesight, Mary Lee Settle volunteered for service in the women's auxiliary arm of the Royal Air Force in 1942. She was a lone young American in a barracks full of English women. All the Brave Promises is her recollection and evocation of those war years.

From the Back Cover: Mary Lee Settle volunteered for service in the women's auxiliary arm of the Royal Air Force in 1942. She was a lone young American in a barracks full of British women. All the Brave Promises is her recollection and evocation of those war years. From her ignominious treatment at the hands of rowdy barracks mates to her friendship with young RAF pilots and her tracking of Allied planes through night fog and blackout, Settle successfully re-creates the heightened sense of danger that pervaded wartime Britain, the immobilizing fear she dealt with on a daily basis, the heady enthusiasm that sometimes broke the tense atmosphere, and the unbridgeable gulf that divided officers from the enlisted ranks. With a mixture of passionate honesty and earthy humor, this masterful, award-winning writer crafts a memoir that is as much a tribute to the generation that fought World War II as a moving account of one woman's extraordinary wartime experience.

Bibliographic Details

Title: All the Brave Promises: Memories of Aircraft...
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Publication Date: 1988
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Very Good